§ MR. MACFARLANEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If his attention has been called to the cases of several stall-keepers charged at the Marylebone Police Court with having false weights, in some instances the supposed pound weighing less than twelve ounces, who, upon conviction, were fined sums varying from forty shillings to five pounds; and, whether he is prepared to recommend or introduce any change in the Law which permits the infliction of twenty years' penal servitude for the theft of a soldier's medal, and only allows a maximum fine of five pounds for defrauding the poorest and most helpless of Her Majesty's subjects?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT, in reply, said, he had no intention of proposing any alteration in the law such as that referred to in the hon. Member's Question.